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He advocated for extreme caution as scientists rushed to figure out just how transmissible and deadly the virus was, at times breaking with the administration’s public-health approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Prosecutors said Bush ran a "shambolic and chaotic" operation at the Hessle Road premises and his "appalling" offending had caused "extreme emotional pain, anguish and upset".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The market has gone from one extreme to the next in a matter of days.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

“All of us recognize the need to take extreme action and soon on trying to rebuild Los Angeles as the film capital of the world,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Kok, a Dutch businessman of extreme wealth, was president of a Belgium-based banking company, SWIFT, and was responsible for organizing several international tournaments.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Moving toward extremes also has the potential to produce rewards.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The report focused on extremes in high temperatures because these often have the greatest impact on people.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Not only does the stock market comprise a greater share of American wealth than ever before, but it has also reached new extremes in terms of heft relative to the broader economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Once our eyes adjusted we could make out lighter rectangles of grey on the far extremes of the space.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

A sharp check from the public authority generally brings out to the front this extremer element in German socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

Hence the extremer Puritans were completely out of touch with the sensuous poetry of Christmas, a festival which, as we shall see, they actually suppressed when they came into power.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

He seems also to have been, as some others of the extremer Puritans certainly were, pretty loose in his construction of moral laws.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

As the necessity for severity decreases, severity even in social disapproval must lessen; as the individual comes to yield more readily and promptly to a slight spur, extremer methods will be discarded.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Born in extremest poverty, he has struggled upward against the crushing weight of factious systems, to an influential position in society.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.